On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, David Miller wrote:
This is a fix (finally!) for the infamous CDROM boot failures a lot of
folks reported. A good log of the situation exists in Debian bug
#261824
It's seen mostly on SunBlade1000, V280R, and V240 systems. But other
kinds of boxes can see it too.
SILO crashes trying to open the CDROM device, it dies deep in the OBP
code for openning the device. You can see this clearly with "ftrace"
at the "ok" prompt which gives a forth backtrace any time an error
occurs during OBP execution.
Great news, Dave! Thank you so much for looking into it.
Unfortunately, I don't have any hardware which exhibits this problem. I've
prepared a tiny Debian installer iso image, which includes the patched
silo, so that people can test it easily (just burn it to a CD and give it
a spin). It is available as
http://www.wooyd.org/debian/silo/sparc-mini.iso
This directory also contains an updated Debian silo package.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@xxxxxxxxx
Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC
P.S. In case someone will decide to use this iso to actually install
Debian, note that you need to pass the parameter ramdisk_size=20000 to the
installer, as the default ramdisk size appears to be insufficient.
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